Viscoelastic dampers for the seismic retrofit of buildings: An overview of advancements in viscoelastic materials & analytical capabilities

8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006

Volumn 14, Issue , 2006, Pages 8575-8584

  Kanitkar, R ^a   Aiken, I ^b   Nishimoto, K ^c   Kasai, K ^d  

^a Crosby Group   (United States)

^b Seismic Isolation Engineering Inc   (United States)

^c NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL STIFFNESS; ANALYTICAL TOOL; EQUIVALENT-LINEAR; PASSIVE CONTROL; SEISMIC BEHAVIOR; SEISMIC DAMPING DEVICES; SEISMIC RETROFITS; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES; STEEL MOMENT FRAMES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARES; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL; VISCOELASTIC DAMPERS;

BUILDINGS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DAMPING; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STIFFNESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

RETROFITTING;

EID: 84865850655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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